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The article I assigned to myself was the African American Burial Ground National Monument. My plan is to hopefully provide information that is not originally in the wikipedia article. I hope to add some ideas about how slavery was more popular in the north than people originally thought. Additionally, the process of how this became a national monument.

Medford, Edna Greene, and Michael L. Blakey. "African Burial Ground Project." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 30-33.Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.

Mazama, Ama. "African Burial Ground Project." Encyclopedia of Black Studies. Ed. Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2005. 33-34. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.

African American Burial Ground National Monument
The African American Burial Ground National Monument is a national monument in lower Manhattan discovered in 1991. During pre construction for a new federal work office construction workers found skeletal remains for over 400 men, women, and children. Further investigation revealed these skeletal remains to be free and enslaved African Americans. During the 17th and 18th century they were buried in a 6.6 acre burial ground in lower Manhattan. Over time this cemetery was filled with landfill and development.

This was the largest bioarchaeological finding in the Americas. It immediately started raise questions about slavery in the north and more specifically New York. Many citizens wanted answers and demanded for research and memorialization. The activity of these citizens led to the burial grounds as a national monument in 1993 and General Services Administration funding research for more knowledge on the burial ground. For almost a dozen years scholars in biological anthropology, history, and archaeology researched these remains, old artifacts, and old documentaries searching for answers.

"The African Burial Ground." The African Burial Ground. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.